The GLS lamp lit interior of the last m.g. electric multiple unit looks Dickensian. The sense of gloom is apparent enough. May these departed workhorses rust in peace. (2004)#AUTH1#Poochhi Venkat#AUTH2# #MENTION#.

The last MMTS rake for the day prepares to leave Lingampalli (near Hyderabad) on a rainy night. This is the new style electric multiple unit stock with single piece windshield, factory fitted sealed twin beam headlights and larger windows. (2005)#AUTH1#La

Its not often that you see a puny WDS4 0-3-0 shunter as glamorous as this! WDS4 # 19704 gleams in the afternoon sun as she runs light in the yard at New Delhi. Once the mainstay of shunting on the IR, the changing traffic patterns and much heavier trains

Terrific night scene of a recently refurbished LGD (Lallaguda) WAG7 coupled to a WAP4 at Hyderabad. A very atmospheric shot indeed. (2005)#AUTH1#Lakshman#AUTH2# #MENTION#

Looking as puny as his little engine, and seemingly desperately in need of nourishment, the driver of a dimunitive CS class steam engine prepares to board his charge on the Shantipur line in Eastern India. The CS class was the lightest class of loco to be

A trio of WAG5 beasts haul a long ore train on the Kirandul to Kottavalasa line on the SER. This is the line where five WDM2s used to haul these trains, prior to electrification. Locotrol (radio control) was tried here too. Note that the engine in the mid

Now here is something most of us will simply ignore: builder's plate of a freight car on the IR. Most of us would not give a freight car a second glance, except for some of its obvious features. Now seeking out its builder's plate, fitted onto an obscure

A NR WG 2-8-2 brings in the Udyan Abha Toofan Express into Agra Fort circa 1983. Very atmospheric shot: this bridge is clearly visible from the fort at Agra.Despite the unnerving army of bloodsucking greedy pig touts at the other end of the fort and the d

Big boys play at night. A mighty WDG4 running LHF prepares to leave with a train out of Sanatnagar, Hyderabad. (2005). The sodium vapour lamps that light up the foreground make the scene look Dickensian.#AUTH1#Vikas Chander#AUTH2# #MENTION#.

Alas, a scene that will never be repeated! Mysore has always been a bastion for m.g. steam. The station was also one of the very few on the IR with a roundhouse. (Bitragunta was another). This classic scene was visible for a brief moment as your train to

YDM4 # 6286 prepares to leave Madras Egmore on a hot afternoon in 1992 with the Pallavan Express to Trichy. I had followed the train from Tambaram in an e.m.u. The SHF engine had been turned round in record time, and was preparing to leave, again running

WAP4 # 22316 of Lallaguda shed rests easy at Secunderabad station at dusk. (2005)#AUTH1#Lakshman#AUTH2#

The starter scribbles a few last minute notes before clearing YP 2825 for a late evening departure from Udaipur. Note token hoop hanging in the loco'c cab, and the electric cab and undercarriage lighting competing with the raging fire in the half open gra

This is as crude as it gets: Narrow gauge railcar on the Ahmedpur to Katwa line in Eastern India. The train is basically a set of vehicles with bus bodies coupled together to form a railcar. (2005)#AUTH1#Samit Roychoudhury#AUTH2#

In stark contrast is this spanking new diesel multiple unit with a refreshing new fibreglass body at Ambala in Northern India. The cars too are of a new design, with large windows. The bodywork is by Hindustan. (2005)#AUTH1#Vicky#AUTH2#